(AFP) An Iraqi man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State group went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave.
Taha al-Jumailly, 27, also stands accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking in the case which is being heard before judges in Frankfurt.
Wearing a white shirt in court, he gave no initial response after being formally advised of the charges against him.
Jumailly’s wife, a German woman named Jennifer Wenisch, has been on trial for a year at a Munich court.
She too is charged with murdering the young Yazidi girl who the pair are believed to have allowed to die of thirst in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2015.
